Japan vs. China

[hubag bohol]

It's been a fascinating relationship, to say the least...

[hubag bohol]

Let's start with a momentous event not too long ago...





It’s no secret that the Chinese and Japanese despise each other, or at least their governments do. It is a sibling rivalry that dates back millennia, but came to a head during the early-20th century Sino-Japanese war, whence Japanese soldiers stormed China’s, then-capital, city of Nanjing and proceeded to rape, mutilate and execute upwards of 400,000 innocent Chinese civilians within just 8 weeks. Or so claims Iris Chang (the Japanese military wholly denies this event took place), who was commissioned by the Communist Party to write this fact-finding novel. Chang later committed suicide for mysterious reasons, but her work holds an important place in academia, for, if true, then the Nanking Massacre is the world’s worst war-time holocaust in history. -- http://listverse.com/

[Lorenzo]

The war crimes that the Japanese inflicted on Asians was deplorable. The savagery they showed towards Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Malays were mind boggling. Can we forget how the Japanese used to throw Filipino babies in the air and catch them with bayonets? Or the thousands of rapes the Japanese inflicted on Filipina women?